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No vacancy: Aspen, Snowmass hit peak occupancy

Carolyn Sackariason/Aspen Public Radio News

The number of visitors to Aspen and Snowmass hit its peak yesterday and will stay there for the next few days.

Yesterday morning, there was one hotel room available in town. It’s probably gone now, but Bill Tomcich from the central reservations agency Stay Aspen Snowmass said last-minute cancelations are pretty much a visitor’s only shot at a night in the upper valley for the rest of the week.

These numbers do not take into account what might be available through vacation rental sites like Airbnb.

Locals can expect to see an exodus on New Year’s Day and Jan. 2, but Aspen and Snowmass will remain at about 80 percent of capacity, up 15 points from last year.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.